Posts Tagged ‘security’

Disable Tech Support on ESXi?

We had an interesting discussion on one of the internal mailing lists this week. Someone asked what the general opinion was about disabling Tech Support. Of course some said disabling should not be a problem, but many also disagreed. The reason for this is simple: Support.
When Tech Support is disabled it removes the option to [...]

Cisco and Granite Ventures invest in Hytrust

I just received the following announcement and thought it would be interesting for you as well:
HyTrust, Inc., the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, announced today that it has secured $10.5 million in Series B financing. New investors Granite Ventures and Cisco Systems participated in the round of financing, as did [...]

Remove the ESXi web welcome screen

I received a question from a customer who wanted, for security reasons, to remove the ESXi web welcome screen. This is the screen that enables you to download the vSphere Client and RCLI and even browse datastores.
I’ve tested it and removing (or renaming) the following file will lead to a blank page when the [...]

Draft version of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide available

VMware published the draft version of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Keep in mind that it’s still draft and needs tweaking. The Team needs your feedback, so if you have any comments please don’t hesitate to reach out and leave a comment on the community forums.
Overall, there are more than 100 guidelines. The guide itself [...]

HyTrust Appliance 1.5

HyTrust just published info on their latest and greatest version of their appliance which will be released on the 24th of August and will carry version number 1.5. Hytrust sits between your virtual environment and the admin and enforces granular authorization of all virtual infrastructure management operations, according [...]

HyTrust Appliance, the community release

I wrote about HyTrust a month ago. Today HyTrust announced a community version. In short, for up to three host you can use a fully featured version of the Hytrust Appliance for free…

HyTrust Appliance, Community Edition is now available for download now as a pre-built, VMware-compatible virtual appliance to members of HyTrust Community. To join [...]

Security updates for ESX 3.x

Just a quick note that I wanted to get out… A security patch has been released. Please look at the following KB article and download, test and implement the patch.
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904201-SG: Updates VMX RPM
Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include:

A critical vulnerability in the virtual machine display [...]

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